Well, border security is always a good thing. As for the second, I don’t know that he’s saying that it’s worth the price in carnage…just that he doesn’t see any other way it’s going to happen.
The assertion that a catastrophic domestic attack offers the USA its “only hope as a country” seems pretty unequivocal.
Clearly, Osama bin Laden is Obi Wan Kenobi: Same sartorial style; unfortunate facial hair; same first initial and number of syllables in name; lives in a cave in a desolate, god-forsaken wasteland; and represents the only hope of a beleaguered Republic.
It all makes perfect sense – from a certain point of view.
How so?
I don’t see him saying that’s what we need, just that there would be an upside to it. I also don’t see him saying or implying that he’d like it to happen.
Cite?
And, uh, BrainGlutton, thanks for the link to the The Nation’s take on things. :rolleyes: I can see you’re up to your usual standards of due diligence when it comes to starting threads. Just in case you or anyone else is interested, here’s a transcript.
Or, “A good way to help prevent a terrorist attack is to keep terrorists out. Our southern border does a woefully poor job of keeping people out, making it a route that terrorists could take. Our government is not sufficiently interested in securing our border. But that would change if we had a terrorist attack.” Where’s the flaw?
He may not have said that he’d personally enjoy it, but he certainly said it would be a good thing.
Remember all the shit Joe Biden deservedly got for predicting a terrorist attack or disaster during Obama’s presidency? This is about a million times worse.
What are you talking about? You’re linking to a transcript of an entirely different show. There’s a video of the conversation in the OP link. Scheuer really does say “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.”
Sure sounds like he thinks we need it to me.
Buckley’s corpse, perhaps.
If I were a terrorist I would try to sneak into the U.S by way of the Canadian border – it’s much longer and hardly anybody watches it.
Or simply land a boat somewhere. Problem is, America’s coastlines and borders are just too long to be effectively sealed, even if we increased the Coast Guard and border patrol budgets tenfold. We don’t even have the resources to open and inspect every cargo container that arrives at a port of entry. Any one of those could contain a ticking bomb.
It didn’t the last time we had one - not that they came from the South anyway. Not to mention that well funded terrorists are going to visit in more comfortable ways than desert walks. Our northern border is no better than our southern one in keeping people who want to come over out, but those people speak English, have money, and want to buy our gas.
But that’s just why it is impractical. Hoping for people to die so that we’ll all be convinced of their point of view is the offensive part. if they can’t convince people using plain rhetoric than either they’re not very good at it or they are wrong.
Buckley’s corpse’s right pinkie.
And the only way to defend marriage is to screw around on your mate, eh?
And the only way to shrink the government is to grow it, and the only way to preserve peace is to start wars.
That’s what Ahmed Rassam, an al Qaeda member who was involved in an unsuccessful plan to bomb LAX in 2000, actually tried.
I can’t wait to hear how you plan on increasing virginity.
Indeed. And it’s also what Hilary Clinton, McCain and Napolitano have all WRONGLY stated that the 911 hijackers tried.
Me? I’m opposed to it. 
Not the only way, to be sure. Among the nuggets of paternal wisdom I have passed along is this: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat, but some are more entertaining than others.”
There’s a wretched pun on “Pussy Galore” in there somewhere, but danged if i can dredge it out.
Really?
Meanwhile:
I think every reasonable person can agree that if the cesspool of STDs known as Baltimore were wiped out, nothing of value would be lost.
I remember after the Cold War you’d get movies about how the CIA wanted to create a terrorist incident in order to keep the country paranoid and keep funding national security. It was entertaining, but it would have been perfectly sensible for people to say that it was just a movie and only fringe loonies feel like that in real life. Forward a decade. A couple of guys in the national media openly fantasize about Osama Bin Laden coming to teach America a lesson.
But I love the fact that Beck thinks Osama is less likely to attack with Obama in the White House. What a terrible dilemma! Only when the Republicans are back in control will Osama attack us again and show us how foolish we were to have Democrats in control!